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Security is Complex, Patching with Microsoft® System Center Shouldn't Be

System Center Configuration Manager is the solution of choice for managing today's enterprise environments. But what’s an administrator to do when a security audit includes vulnerabilities in non-Microsoft applications?

Introducing the only enterprise-class 3rd party patching solution designed exclusively for System Center environments that require operationally efficient and reliable security and compliance patching solutions.

Join us for an in-depth demonstration of practical methods to improve the patch process for your most targeted 3rd party desktop applications, reduce the time you spend building updates, and improve audit readiness in your Windows environment—through our newly released Lumension® Patch Manager DeskTop plug-in.

Key capabilities include:
Integrated plug-in with automated content subscription and synchronized scheduling—all within the familiar SCCM console but without need for manual SCUP input
Ensures systems are correctly patched the first time though Patent-pending Patch-Smart™ technology
Enterprise-class content which delivers in-depth vulnerability information and supports both enterprise and consumer versions of the most widely adopted, highly targeted applications

With the exponential growth and sophistication of malware today, the security industry can no longer afford to ‘bury its head in the sand’. The bottom line is that traditional endpoint security protection has now become ineffective due to the sheer volume, quality, and complexity of malware. New threats have stretched the capabilities of "fat client" security architectures to the limit, making it impractical to keep endpoints updated with signatures for all the new viruses.
Please join us for a live demonstration of Webroot SecureAnywhere® Business – Endpoint Protection.

After so many massive data breaches in 2014, it’s small wonder that data protection is such a hot topic today. The fourth annual Data Protection Maturity Trends report delves into the issues and concerns facing IT security teams, how effective their data protection efforts have been to date, and their plans for 2015 and beyond.

Remember the 1960s television program, “The 21st century,” with Walter Cronkite? The show ran from 1967 to 1970, and some people have not been satisfied with the rate of change in the last 40 years, lamenting that Cronkite and other futurists promised flying cars by 2010. Has the pace of innovation in the data center industry slowed to Flying Car pace?

With Intel releasing 3 or 4 generations of processors per year, and software defined everything changing the way we view IT architecture and infrastructure on a daily basis, it seems hard to wait for innovations that have been discussed for a long time data center industry.

In this webinar, we will look at some of the innovations that have been discussed over the last 10 years, and see where they are in terms of implementation. Some of the topics include:

Data center energy efficiency is being attacked from numerous directions, including power distribution innovations, the creation of hardware better suited to customer applications (to drive better IT utilization), co-designing data centers with IT solutions, and cooling system innovations.

With respect to cooling systems, the widely-recognized Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) from The Green Grid (TGG), which is a direct measure of data center energy efficiency, has been used to great effect to continuously drive down “traditional” air-cooled data center PUEs. In the high performance computing (HPC) space, where 40 kW+ rack power densities are commonplace, more aggressive cooling technologies such as liquid-cooling, are seeing rapid adoption. There is also increasing evidence that liquid-cooling is making its way into non-HPC data centers. The presentation will cover such topics as:

· Data center energy efficiency trends
· An overview of liquid-cooling technologies
· The role that liquid-cooled IT is playing in driving improved energy efficiency – towards a PUE of 1.1
· The challenges of implementing liquid-cooling in the IT and data centers

The goal is to help demystify liquid-cooling. Finally, The Green Grid’s recently announced Liquid-Cooling Work Group will be described.

Join us for this informative 60 minute roundtable as we discuss how flash is helping data centers become faster and far more efficient. This panel follows our previous all-flash panel with a whole new round of all-flash storage vendors. Some of the questions we'll be asking include: Is all-flash suitable for all workloads or is a hybrid approach enough? Is a scale-out flash approach superior? Can all-flash be as cost-effective as spinning disk?

The overall industry has over provisioned infrastructure for years – we are now optimizing what we have and what we need by thinking ‘lean’.

This seminar is geared towards a three step program on how to drive up utilization of existing infrastructure and ensuring a lean supply chain by:

1) Identifying what you have already
2) Ensuring you are both “allocated” and “utilized”
3) Focusing on your support as a “commodty”

Apply this to all classes of infrastructure and you can drive down your TCO >20%and sometimes up to 40%…Geared towards web-scale infrastructure managers, planners, and supply chain from any and all companies engaged in managing large scale internet infrastructure.

Progressive CIO's want out of the data center market, at least data centers as we have known them for the past few decades. The CIO's vision is for an autonomous data center; a data center that operates without the constant supervision of storage, network, database and exchange administrators. A data center that virtually runs itself; automatically adjusting compute, networking and storage to adapt to the changing demands of the applications and services critical to the success of the business.

So how do large enterprises, burdened with security, compliance, application interdependency, and legacy architectures, begin building towards an autonomous data center? How does the CIO begin thinking strategically about the evolution of the data center and understand the building blocks that will be needed to one day achieve this vision?

In this webinar, we'll begin the journey by defining the autonomous data center, understanding the strategy required for realizing this vision, and exploring the ultimate impact to IT.

User-centric risk tops this year’s concerns: what is IT doing about it?
Endpoint risk is rising and 78% of respondents to the new 2015 State of Endpoint Security study say negligent, careless employees not following policy are IT’s biggest threat.

The 6th Annual survey, conducted by Ponemon Institute, asked IT practitioners involved in securing endpoints about risks and challenges in 2015. This year’s report reveals why risk has become more challenging over the last 24 months and what IT plans to do about it in 2015.

Join us Wednesday January 21st at 8am PST / 11am EST, as Larry Ponemon and Chris Merritt reveal analysis from the Annual State of Endpoint Risk, sponsored by Lumension, including:
• The evolving IT threat landscape and today’s top-5 risks
• The disconnect between perceived and actual risk, and the corresponding strategies to combat these threats including detect and respond, big data and threat intelligence
• Insights into new Infosec budgets and their 2015 allocations

Register Today, and learn how your peers are planning on addressing the endpoint security risks and challenges of 2015.

2015 was a massive year for data centers with the introduction of software-defined practices, the push of silicon and the whisper of graphene storage and the further proliferation of cloud delivery models. And yet the data center continues to grow and new issues present themselves, especially around data protection and regulation - so what do you need to know in 2015?

Join Markus Zappolino of SNIA Europe as he looks at what the major trends will be in 2015 for the data center industry and looks at the key drivers for data management and protection, what changes are required in today's storage landscapes, what happens in an internet minute, current and future technologies, and more!

Biomass could have an important role in the strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from large coal plants. Amongst the plethora of different biomasses, wood pellets have emerged as one of the most successful and fast growing internationally traded commodities. Wood (and straw) pellets offer a more energy dense and transportable alternative to the traditional wood chip, a product most commonly associated with the paper and pulp industry.

A few large scale projects in Europe have drawn on North American sources to supplement local supplies of biomass without any major problems. At current levels of demand, there appears to be an abundance of wood resource.
However, extending cofiring at low rates (5-10%) to the world’s coal-fired fleet will increase demand for wood pellets significantly. Meeting this demand will offer opportunities and challenges for the entire biomass supply chain, not least forest resources. This presentation accompanies a report by the IEA Clean Coal Centre to review the current understanding of world biomass resources using published forestry data from the UN Forestry and Agricultural Organization (FAO). From these data, the author attempts to identify a global and regional resource figure for wood in the form of residues and waste by-products that arise from the forestry industry; and discusses the broad issues that affect forest resources worldwide.

There was more Malware in 2014 than all Malware measured since 1984! Today's malware now hides not only in blacklisted websites and email attachments - it may emanate from the Web's most popular sites, from "Friends" on popular social networking sites, or from bots that reside on the own corporate network. In this special webcast the presenter will take a step back and review the history of malware, its purpose then, and its purpose now.

Legislation for mercury control for coal-fired power plants is emerging in several regions. The US
Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) has several new rules, including MATS (the Mercury
and Air Toxics Standard) and CSAPR (the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule) both of which will have
a significant impact on coal-fired power plants in terms of retrofitting control technologies for
compliance. Canada has the Canada-Wide Standard which sets caps on mercury emissions for
individual Provinces. Although the EU has not yet set emission limits for mercury from coal-fired
plants, the new IED (Industrial Emissions Directive) has annual monitoring requirements for
mercury emissions. Further, the new BREFs (best available technology reference documents)
include details on options for mercury control. This would imply that, although mercury is not
currently being regulated, emissions are being monitored and control may be required at some
sources in future. China's latest Five-Year Plan includes emission limits for mercury which, for
the moment, are not particularly challenging. However, there is clearly a recent and significant
move in China towards the cleaning up of emissions from the coal sector.
In addition to mercury-specific policies and approaches, these regions have other policies and
regulations which could have a significant effect on mercury emissions. Looking ahead, based on
the consideration that regulations will be enacted for several pollutants simultaneously in these
regions, the outlook for environmental equipment regulations with respect to trace element
emissions is investigated. The webinar covers:
• legislative approaches in the different regions;
• suitable control technologies - co-benefit approaches, mercury specific technologies and
multi-pollutant strategies; and
• summaries of action in each of the target regions.

Traditional endpoint security has failed to keep up with today’s threats and is exposing organizations to unacceptable levels of risk. It’s time for smarter, next-generation malware prevention to replace or supplement traditional defenses. New approaches to malware can wrest back control and give security administrators greater visibility and control over their endpoints at a lower cost than traditional solutions.

This webinar will look at the endpoint threats organizations are facing, the means to combat those threats, and why next-generation, cloud-driven protection offers the smartest way to prevent endpoint malware infections.

This webinar will address:
• Cutting-edge technologies evolving to enable WHR
• Impending changes in the industrial WHR market
• Industries poised to gain the most benefit from WHR

Opportunities in the WHR market vary as several product developers explore different ways to increase energy efficiency. This webinar will help WHR developers identify target end-user segments and refine product offerings. Stakeholders in industries with high energy use such as the cement, glass, and oil and gas industries should attend to discover how WHR can help mitigate tightening energy budgets

Demand Response solutions have a massive role to play in delivering secure, clean and affordable energy in the years to come. For businesses, it can provide a new source of revenue to offset rising energy costs or fund energy efficiency measures, cut carbon emissions and help to ‘keep the lights on’ across the UK.

Open Energi will provide an overview of the different types of Demand Response measures that exist and their practical applications whilst United Utilities will share their experiences of implementing a Demand Response strategy to offset rising energy costs.

The Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) is an EU directive that requires large companies to carry out regular energy audits. Its ultimate aim is to help the EU meet its target of reducing energy consumption by 20% by 2020, but it has been estimated that the scheme will lead to £1.6bn worth of benefits to the UK.

Join Energy Live News, Martin Adams ESOS Team Leader from Energy Efficiency Deployment Office (DECC) and Grant Barr, Head of Technical Sales, npower as they take you through the details on ESOS and how your business will benefit from this governmental scheme. To register for the FREE webinar that takes place on Thursday 27th November, 10 -11am. Please click on the ATTEND button in the panel below.

The European Union has set an ambitious goal of improving energy efficiency by 20% by 2020. The new Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) offers some best practices on how to identify initiatives with the greatest potential to improve efficiency, how to prioritise efficiency investment and how to ensure available incentives are accessed. Key measures include conducting energy audits, designing a data monitoring system, installing smart meters, utilising industry expertise and staying on top of national legislation.

So what does it mean to your business? Listen to our 50 minute Masterclass where we will outline what opportunities are available through the Energy Efficiency Directive including the Energy Saving Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) and ISO50001.

Join us for a free hour-long panel discussion sponsored by Teradici. Moderator Alex Herrera outlines the key business drivers and enabling technologies for graphics-rich remote visualization, and how organizations can develop an IT strategy to support a secure and everywhere-connected workforce. This webinar will also include two senior IT managers who will share how their organizations have:
• Met the demands for high-performance visual computing
• Evolved their IT strategies to support the BYOD trend
• Leveraged Teradici PCoIP Remote Workstation solutions to securely deliver a seamless end user experience
• Realized significant business benefits from deploying PCoIP technology

Those who attend the webinar will receive a copy of the slide deck.
Q&A will follow at the end of the session.

In 2014 we’ve already seen about 35% of the new malware ever seen!
In this webinar you’ll learn what has created this perfect storm of new malware?
What sort of malware it is? What it’s doing? And where Webroot believe this is going in the next 12 months into 2015.They say knowledge is power this webinar will give you the understanding to go with it and help you defend your organization.

The 50% decline in oil prices since August 2014 has shaken up the energy sector, with oil companies slashing investment in new exploration projects. However, the decline in price has raised wider questions about investment across the power sector, including gas and renewable energy.

The efficient use of resources continues to be a hot issue, and technologies related to buildings, lighting and water continue to increase in prominence.

Join the briefing to discover:
- The top 15 trends that will impact the Energy & Environment sector in 2015
- The role technology is playing in solving the challenge posed by global warming and scarcity of resources
- Details of the evolution in business models currently taking place

Competition between coal and natural gas for power generation has been observed to occur in North America and Europe in recent years, where the costs of the two fuels have played a key role in determining the relative competitiveness. It is perceived that such a competition could also happen in Asian countries. More importantly, as these countries are expanding their generation capacity to meet growing electricity demand, a key question is raised of whether coal or gas power plants should be built with priority. This webinar is based on a recent report published by IEA CCC, where the authors investigate nine Asian countries to seek to understand the mechanisms that drive the competition between coal and gas for power generation.

Teradici’s PCoIP Management Console helps IT professionals easily rollout and manage PCoIP devices in their VDI, DaaS, and PCoIP Remote Workstation deployments. The PCoIP Management Console is a web-based management tool that provides the ability to centrally and remotely monitor, configure, and update an entire ecosystem of PCoIP devices and proactively resolve problems.

"We have seen reduced end-user downtime due to things like viruses, faster deployments of new software and operating systems, and dramatic decreases in the amount of time IT spends provisioning and updating devices."
Jenifer Slabaugh, System Administrator, Bartholomew County Government

Join us to learn how to reduce the time and effort your organizations spends on device management and free up your IT team to focus on other key areas of your business.

Sign up for this webinar and hear Bartholomew County and PCoIP Product Experts share their insights on how to:

As the demand for energy increases and production declines, E&P companies are focusing on maintaining their assets. This briefing will analyze and investigate the changing environment in enhanced oil recovery across North America. The briefing will specifically focus on enhanced oil recovery techniques and a dynamic cost model to determine the breakeven for each technique.

Why you should attend:
1. Learn about growth in enhanced oil recovery in North America
2. Discover how drivers and restraints impact this industry
3. Get a complete analysis of dynamic cost models for each technique
4. Understand the voice of the customer regarding current and future trends

Every company wants to be efficient, right? But is it still an option when it comes to data centres? Do businesses really care about data centre efficiency any more?

Join this presentation as it asks the question of whether data centres and the choice of services they provide are evolving at such a rate that businesses no longer see data centre efficiency as a consideration in their strategies.

True sustainability is achieved in three discrete steps - Firstly Reduction of Consumption, secondly Minimisation of Losses and, finally, Power from Renewable Sources. All of these are possible in modern data centre design but come with some increased risks. These risks may be more perceived than real but we have to accept that the primary purpose of a data centre is not to save the user energy but to provide reliable digital services that meet their business case. The users risk profile comes at the top of the design wish list.

Join Prof. Ian Bitterlin for this presentation as he shows how a sustainable design can be forged for a user with a low appetite for risk and a high appetite for risk with the rewards that accompany it.

The road to data center efficiency is paved with good intentions…but littered with unintended consequences. In this presentation, Chris Crosby will discuss how the industry-wide drive to increase data center efficiency by data center operators, end users, IT equipment manufacturers and others can ironically lead to major inefficiencies and dysfunction that go directly against the objects of these efforts. Crosby will discuss how high-density server architecture, government regulations, virtualization and other efficiency-minded initiatives are resulting in unexpected challenges and negative results. Crosby will also talk through approaches to achieving data center efficiency that avoid these unintended consequences.

The power of the cloud brings both opportunities and challenges to the enterprise. IT professionals are looking to embrace the power of software, to transform their existing infrastructure into an efficient, optimized, scalable, software-defined data center, that gives them the management control and capability they need to drive their businesses forward. At the same time, they want to build on existing experience and knowledge, whilst pushing forward with new technologies, skills and certifications.

In this webinar, Matt McSpirit will outline the key essentials for future-proofing IT infrastructure and explore the role of the Microsoft Cloud Platform (with technologies like Windows Server, System Center and Azure) in achieving the vision of tomorrow's software-defined data center.